Chegg for Good is a social service and charitable offshoot of the
popular online textbook rental and sales company Chegg in California.
The company regularly sets aside paid workdays for its employees to
volunteer in their communities. Chegg staff members recently worked with
the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to
distribute food during one of the organization’s Family Harvest Days in
San Jose.
Family Harvest Days offer both high-quality food and
educational programming to low-income families with children under 18.
Volunteers at the events assist with set-up and food distribution, sign
up new participants in the Second Harvest program, and help attendees
carry food to their vehicles.
The Chegg employees were eager to
unload and distribute the fresh, frozen, and canned fruits and
vegetables, frozen turkeys, eggs, and milk that would make a big
difference in the lives of San Jose children. Second Harvest clients
joined in and helped out as volunteers before receiving their own
much-needed supplies. Without the services of Second Harvest, many
children and teens from food-insecure households would have few
nutritious meals at home.
Rick Bolander, the managing director of
Redwood City-based Gabriel Venture Partners, holds a board seat at
Chegg and other corporations that have benefited from his
entrepreneurial expertise.